By Virginia Woolf
Última novela de Virginia Woolf, Entre actos es l. a. obra que l. a. autora escribió antes de suicidarse, en 1941. Fue publicada póstumamente y enseguida se consideró una obra maestra, l. a. quintaesencia de su carrera novelística, una de las aportaciones más brillantes y decisivas a l. a. literatura europea del siglo XX.
La historia transcurre durante el verano de 1939 en Pointz corridor, l. a. casa de campo de l. a. familia Oliver desde hace más de un siglo. El crucial evento de los angeles novela es l. a. representación de l. a. obra teatral que todos los años se organiza en el pueblo, escrita y dirigida esta vez por l. a. vehemente señorita los angeles Trobe, que refleja los angeles historia de Inglaterra desde l. a. Edad Media hasta los días previos al estallido de los angeles Segunda Guerra Mundial. Presente y pasado, los angeles historia más lejana y los angeles historia que está a punto de ocurrir, el mundo remoto y el mundo que ya empieza a desaparecer se entrelazan en esta prodigiosa novela, el último acto de una de las representaciones literarias más poderosas, valientes y perdurables de todos los tiempos.
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I would also like to thank Dan Franklin, Pascal Cariss and Jason Arthur at Jonathan Cape. Pieces in this book were compiled by Professor James Diedrick. I gratefully salute his skill and acuity. R. Leavis and Lionel Trilling, and on lesser figures like Ian Robinson and Denis Donoghue). 'Literature and society' was, at one time, a phrase so much on everyone's lips that it earned itself an abbreviation: Lit & Soc. And Lit & Soc, I seemed to remember, had been for me a long-running enthusiasm. But when I leafed through the massed manuscripts I found only a handful of essays, all of them written, rather ominously, in the early Seventies (when I was in my early twenties).
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